We received an email today from Ole Tangen Jr., the English Editor of "The BOBs" telling us that techPresident has been nominated "as one of the best blogs in the world" out of more than 7,000 submitted. If you agree, go here to cast your votes for your favorites. Voting is open until November 15.

The Giuliani Quote Generator Facebook app automates absurdist phrases; Off The Bus speaks truth to the polls, launches its new Polling Project; Ask Your Lawmaker Diggifies the public's questions to the candidates; is Karl Rove a better pundit than Markos Moulitsas?; A clip from the Joe Scarborough show is another example of journalists focusing on anything but the issues; VetVoice, a site devoted to veterans' issues in the campaign, launches with a number of candidate posts on the way; analyzing and voting on campaign logos; a new Obama video takes health care head-on; and TechCrunch interviews John Edwards.

OK, so I've now heard from a bunch of friends, including several wiser and cooler heads with many years of experience in the trenches, and they've convinced me that I overstated things in my previous post attacking TechCrunch.

TechCrunch announces the winners of its primaries; Barack Obama has pulled in $4 million over the weekend; video of Obama's SC speech beats out Britney in popularity; a new site, the Washington Independent, offers a new web-based model of journalism; a sharp critique of Republican bloggers; MyDD holds a bake sale; Shays and Bush continue the Judas model of governance; a blogger on John Edwards' site goes after Trippi; Mike Huckabee appears on GodTube; a new attack ad from McCain continues the flip-flop theme; and Ron Paul offers a typically off-kilter message to his supporters.

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